According to the editor's notes, this sentimental poem was popular during the Civil War. Consisting of six stanzas of eight lines each, it is at once a ballad and a lullaby (or at least a yearning for one). Each stanza ends with the refrain, "Rock me to sleep, mother, -- rock me to sleep!"

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